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Discuss “Facebook filled with interest and ignorance”

“But how will I know if I have friends?” said first-year Sara-Anne Lee half-jokingly when she discovered that facebook.com was down for a day last week.

Lee is not alone in her reliance on Facebook — by late 2005, nearly 70 percent of Carnegie Mellon undergraduates had profiles on facebook.com.

A Donner Hall community discussion last Tuesday focused on the astonishingly popular social networking website. Junior Pat Malatack, the Donner Hall Community Advisor, kicked off a new discussion series with a talk about the issues regarding Facebook.

Malatack, a double major in human-computer interaction and cognitive science, hopes that a community dialogue will help his residents learn from each other, especially about something as important...

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